Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
WALTER SCOTTRecollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
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Welcome as the flowers in May.
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Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
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A sinful heart makes feeble hand.
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Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
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Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
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Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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Come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last.
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From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow and weep to see them melt.
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Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
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Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!
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Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
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